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ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 305,131 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding scope of testing nationwide to facilitate early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out necessary treatment. As part of its ...

Dubai / WAM Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Group Chairman and CEO, opened the DP World Flow pavilion at Expo 2020. DP World’s pavilion is designed around the theme of ‘Making Trade Flow.’ Visitors will be able to explore the movement of commerce around the world that drives the global economy, giving a unique insight into the innovative technology of supply ...

Dubai / WAM Saif Abdullah Mohammed Al Shamsi, UAE Ambassador to Thailand, affirmed that Expo 2020 Dubai would create promising opportunities for participating countries and boost efforts being made to stimulate global economy and enhance confidence in sectors hit by the Covid-19 pandemic as well as generate job opportunities. In an interview with the Emirates News Agency (WAM), Saif Al ...

Sharjah / WAM Sheikh Fahim Al Qasimi, Chairman of the Department of Government Relations (DGR) in Sharjah, hosted a high-level Guatemalan delegation, headed by Antonio Malouf, Guatemala’s Minister of Economy, at the House of Wisdom in Sharjah to explore and strengthen the framework of economic collaboration and enhance commercial and investment partnerships between the emirate and the Central American country. ...

Sharjah / WAM The Department of Water and Desalination Plants at the Sharjah Electricity, Water and Gas Authority (Sewa) revealed the completion of a project to replace and develop Al Falaj water pumping station with a pumping capacity of 73.9 million gallons per day, contributing to saving 879 megawatts of electricity annually and reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 503 tonnes ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has announced the launch of a new initiative dubbed as “One Stop Shop for Litigation”, which allows judges of Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Al Dhafra courts to hear disputes and render judgments from anywhere without being restricted by the geographical location of registered cases, by utilising video conference technology. ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT) has announced that the 2021 first-half report for real estate transactions in Abu Dhabi reached AED23.57 billion. The H1 recorded value was achieved through 7,046 transactions, including transactions and mortgages of land, buildings and real estate units of all kinds. The report showed that the real estate sector in ...

ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has received a letter of thanks from President Katerina Sakellaropoulou of Greece, in which the latter expressed her gratitude for UAE’s efforts in helping extinguish wildfires that swept Greece recently. In her message, President Sakellaropoulou voiced her country’s thanks and appreciation for UAE’s assistance in confronting these ...

Moroni / WAM The UAE has handed over educational curricula in the Arabic language for the Kindergarten stage to the Comoros Islands as part of its desire to support the teaching of the language in the country. This came during a meeting between Saeed Mohammed Murshid Al Maqbali, the UAE Ambassador to Comoros, and Jaafar Salam Al-Alaoui, the Minister of ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The central bank of the UAE (CBUAE) together with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub Centre in Honk Kong, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Bank of Thailand, and the Digital Currency Institute of the People’s Bank of China have issued the first Multiple CBDC Bridge (mBridge) Project report – a major milestone of ...